One transgender woman, Sheena, left Florida to move to Minnesota. Florida has recently passed extremely harsh legislation targeting the transgender community, and Sheena cited this legislation in her decision to move with her partner, stating that she “had to leave Florida within one month [of the transgender medical ban on adults] to avoid having my care halted.”
As long as Texas and Florida can prop these states up they could maybe make something work, though climate change might make that impossible.
There’s plenty of military, industrial, and oil stuff in the South but much like Russia it’d be anathema for other countries to support a bigoted breakaway unless they just wanted to stick it to Washington or fracture the country or really depended on specific crops/resources/etc.
No wonder Russia, Trump, and Republicans get along so well.